"Yes. If you hadn't come, sir, we could only give up searching for the sacrificed girls in the village. Besides, there was definitely no way out for them in a cave like this."
The other burly men began to cry one after another, but Mr. He Qian simply could not find Mirai. In the end, he had no choice but to make a decision.
He would risk going down into the cave to search for the girls from the village!
He felt that he was not yet at an age where he could simply live out his remaining years, and his granddaughter was already old enough to take good care of herself. So, while he was still alive, he wanted to do everything he could.
This was not only for the girls who had been sacrificed, but also for himself—for him to forgive himself!
Forgive me for deciding to offer my granddaughter to that monster.
Then Mr. He Qian jumped into the cave, and then... he never appeared again.
As for Mr. He Qian's granddaughter, when she saw that her grandfather still had not come back up, her heart turned to ashes. Recalling her miserable fate, she finally took advantage of the men's inattention, just as they were about to cover the cave again with the earthen slope, and jumped into the cave as well.
Keiko entered the cave. Braving the bone-chilling cold, she reached a tunnel within it. At the tunnel's exit lay a huge underground cavern, where she saw her grandfather, Mr. He Qian. He had already died after being eroded by the cold yin energy.
Keiko gently sat beside Mr. He Qian, wrapped her arms around his neck, and quietly waited for the deathly energy to consume her.
As Keiko was about to die, her little head